"As a social and legal institution of family formation, and as a
personal experience of members of the adoption triad, adoption
provides a fresh vantage point on an important set of philosophical
and feminist issues. The family is often thought to be the basic
and natural form of social life for human beings; adoption,
however, highlights the powerful role that law and politics play in
shaping families and our ideas about families. As a result,
attention to the practices of adoption sheds light upon deeply
held, but often tacit assumptions about what is natural and what is
social in human life." from the Introduction
The institution of adoption has come under increasing scrutiny
in recent years as the adoption world has undergone seismic shifts:
the rise in international and transracial adoptions and the effects
of global economics; adoption by gays and lesbians; increasing
openness in the adoption process; and changes in domestic welfare
policy on adoption. Adoption Matters adds to our understanding of
reproduction, parenting, familial bonds, personal identity,
self-knowledge, and contemporary social policy. The contributors to
Adoption Matters explore a range of related topics, such as the
manner in which interracial or international adoption affects the
way we perceive the relationships among race, ethnicity, and
culture and how class affects one's life prospects and choices.
"In this distinctive collection of essays, the authors
illuminate adoption by bringing feminist theory to bear on it, and
they expand and enrich feminist theory by making it respond to
their own personal experience as adoptive parents or as adoptees."
Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of
California, Berkeley, editor of Adoption Law and Practice and
coeditor of Families by Law: An Adoption Reader
"Adoption Matters courageously examines how adoption influences
and challenges our society's understanding of the intersection of
family and identity 'an intersection that is both deeply personal
and highly political.'" Abigail Garner, author of Families Like
Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is"
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